Once judgment has achieved what enforcement options would normally be available?
The enforcement options most normally exercised are the registration of a charging order (where the judgment debtor owns real estate) bankruptcy and attachment requiring the debtors employer or benefit payer to pay a certain portion of their wages or benefit to the judgment creditor on a weekly or regular in order to satisfy the debt.
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